Termina features vastly different geography, including a swamp in the south, an ocean in the west, mountains in the north, and a canyon in the east. In the middle of these locations is Clock Town, a bustling town surrounded by a plain.

Termina is inhabited by the same races as Hyrule. The people, however, are known as Terminians rather than Hylians, as they are not from Hyrule. They all bear striking resemblance to the people found in Hyrule, however. The official reason for this is that Termina is a parallel world to Hyrule, but the true reason is that Nintendo reused the sprites and character models found in Ocarina of Time.